He was legally bound by both American and international law to stop sending them weapons.

Yup, we did prove it. And the US only had to kill millions of people and spend trillions of dollars to do it.

Can you cite the work of communist theory that lays out this doctrine?

Yup. It's not just neoliberalism either. The early thinkers who advanced liberalism were pretty clear that individual freedom was reserved for the wealthy elite. Those ideals never applied to the working class, because they viewed workers as subhuman.

It seems counterintuitive, but the core of fascism is the marriage of state and corporate power, and neoliberalism has been concentrating more and more power in corporate hands for decades now. Imo, neoliberalism makes fascism almost inevitable.

You're not going to see that from institutions like Columbia or any other business because they only care about their bottom line. The fight has to come from working class people. There's no other way.

idk what you want obama to do rn, now is no time to bomb a wedding

Yeah, it's really terrible that people are just now starting to die in places like Gaza.

I'll be honest, I'm probably sticking with my t-shirts and basketball shorts.

Yup, China is far from perfect, but high-level corruption is also punishable by execution there. Meanwhile, the American oligarchy is working on stripping the country down for parts as we speak.

And, for all their faults, socialist/communist states have done far more to level the playing field and tear down class hierarchies than any capitalist state ever could. And they did it while under constant threat from the capitalist powers that wanted to destroy them.

Some corruption is probably inevitable until class society is totally abolished. So I think there is an important distinction: capitalism aims to perpetuate and strengthen class hierarchies, while communism aims to abolish them completely.

Not trying to dunk or anything, but it's important to keep in mind that if you grew up in the US or western Europe, then you likely learned almost everything you know about communism from capitalists. Most communist countries were/are much more democratic than people think.